Intense Camps

Not only do we provide programs for youth to learn more about the theater- but we give them the opportunity to be a star! LNT offers two week performance and technical theater intensives during the summer.

Our youth performances are one of a kind and an outstanding opportunity for the participants to learn about every aspect of theater, its protocols & etiquette, and to experience the challenges of an intense professional rehearsal process. They are the culminating projects of one and two-week intensives.

Supported and lead by professional directors, designers and technicians, our Theater FOR Kids BY Kids productions are fully staged and designed. The teaching artist/designer to student ratio averages 1 for every 3-4 students – all the resources of Lost Nation Theater and its staff supporting them.

These opportunities are available for ages 9-21 (depending on the camp).

Audition Preparation

Memorized Monologue (can be from play, poem, or book) approximately 1 minute in length

16 bars of song (theater production camp, for ages 9 & up); 32 bars of song (musical production camp, for ages 10-21)

Songs are sung a capella (no accompaniment provided)

Audition Director will likely ask you to make changes to your monologue and "play" with you a bit.This is to explore how you collaborate or take direction. It doesn't mean you did something wrong.For the director, "playing" after your prepared audition is done is the fun part!

Technical Interview Preparation

Portfolio (any pictures of anything that you've worked on our helped to create,) if available

2 references (teachers, directors) who can attest to your ability to focus and follow-through

Be ready to talk about what you want to learn and/or hope to get out of the experience and what you like (or think you might like) about technical theater

no appointment or pre-registration is needed. auditions are on first-come, first-serve basis.

General Auditions and Interviews for acceptance into the Intensive Ensemble:

March 2019 Date TBD; 3:30-6:30 (individual auditions)

May 2019 Date TBD; 5pm-7:30pm (individual auditions)

Call Backs for Specific Roles:

June 2019, exact date to be announced (all ensemble members entire time)

Please call the theater at (802) 229-0492 or Email for more information.All Sales Final.50% Non-refundable deposit required. Balance Due two weeks prior to 1st day of workshop. There are no refunds once classes begin. Prior to start date, partial refunds may be available with cancellation in keeping with a time-sensitive sliding scale.

Music-Theater Production 2019: The Wiz!

2-Week Advanced Full-Day Musical Theater Production Intensive:

9am - 5pm (plus performances)

M–F, Aug 5–Aug 16

Sat & Sun Aug 17–18

The Wiz

For ages 10-21. BY AUDITION.

Take Your Performance to New Heights.

Work with professionals and other students dedicated to pursuing excellence and exceeding expectations with dedicated commitment. Tony winners Charlie Smalls & William F Brown bring to "R&B"-"pop"-and-"soul"-filled life all your favorite characters from L Frank Baum's Wizard of Oz, in this enchanting dance-musical which is the vehicle for our most advanced intensive.

Stretch your triple-threat potential as LNT’s professional directors provide participants with new tools and self-awareness to grow your acting, singing and dancing skills (often helping participants exceed what they thought possible of themselves.)

Designed for aspiring professionals, the focus is on honing new skills through a rigorous & intense professional rehearsal process with specialized classes including character-development, physical acting, voice, choreography & dance, theater protocols and “biz-savvy” audition prep. Highest levels of concentration, collaboration, openness, ensemble-spirit, and self-discipline and self-motivation are demanded.

Culminates in a fully-staged, professionally designed and directed production running for 5 performances. General auditions for acceptance into the Intensive’s Ensemble are in March & May. Callbacks for specific roles (within the ensemble) are in June. Notification of roles and distribution of scripts occurs early in July, giving cast members 3-4 weeks to memorize lines and lyrics before starting rehearsals. In two-weeks, ensemble members mount a full production of this cavorting caper of a musical by some of Broadway’s most respected writers.

Led by choreographer Taryn Noelle (winner, 2017 Gov’s Award for Excellence in Art Education.) and other professional theater educators to be announced soon!

Make It. Manage It.

For age 12+. Interview Required. Study with professional designers & stage managers, while working on the scenic, lighting, props and management of musical The Wiz.Week one includes overview in all areas, classroom study and hands-on experience. Week 2: focus in a specific area of technical theater, as much as possible matching participants’ #1 interest, and run crew experience. Execute & Participate in the design for The Wiz.Start and End the Day with the performance participants